Genesis 28:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

The blessing

Wherein thou art a stranger

Genesis 17:8

Which

General references

Genesis 13:15

Numbers 6:23

Joshua 21:43

Bible References

The blessing

Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

May his name endure forever;
May his name increase

as long as the sun shines;

And let men bless themselves by him;

Let all nations call him blessed.

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Wherein thou art a stranger

I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

Which

The Lord

appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

O seed of Abraham, His servant,
O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

General references

for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.

“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:

So the Lord gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it.